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In reply to the discussion: Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him. [View all]wryter2000
(47,629 posts)54. I'm sure you're right
Maybe they should stop selling policies to repeat offending municipalities. Then, the loss would have to come out of their budgets.
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Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him. [View all]
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
OP
The police department needs to do an infinitely better job of screening and training
groundloop
Apr 2021
#20
they need to start taking it out of their pension funds, or their promotions.
demigoddess
Apr 2021
#24
One that they probably can afford and that just set them off... a Black man driving a car nicer
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#57
I'm an old military brat and I don't get it. I feel safer than anywhere on a base, and that is
demigoddess
Apr 2021
#26
THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Wifey and I have been talking about this forever. We're both black and we know
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#49
That guy getting pepper sprayed for having a new car really made me mad! He was polite and
demigoddess
Apr 2021
#56
+1, the murder cop even said something like "you better be" when the guy said he was scared ...
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#58
When lawsuits against this type of corruption comes out of the policeman's group retirement fund
flying_wahini
Apr 2021
#14
+1, or buy stock in the insurance companies that back them and then sue the insurance companies
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#47
Cops feel invulnerable when brutalizing blacks, even their body cams haven't curbed the violence.
sop
Apr 2021
#40
Uh, yeah "chill and let this go," ... that sounds like a felony coercion. Hmmm, yeah ...
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#50
"The temporary tags are visible in the body camera footage. " FUCKIN WOW !!! Racist assed cops
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#51